telly fans 8
Posted on May 14, 2010
telly fans 7
Posted on May 13, 2010
Vietnamese Meditation Bell
Posted on May 11, 2010
Dark Places
Posted on May 2, 2010
‘Dark Places’ by Adam Cope
” Un homme n’est que un misérable tas de minable sécrets.” – André Malraux
(A man is only a miserable pile of pitiful secrets)
This post is part of recent series of postings loosely inspired by Antonio Machado’s poem:
Wanderer, the road is your
footsteps, nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
you lay down a path in walking.
In walking, you lay down a path
and when turning around
you see the road you’ll
never step on again.
Wanderer, path there is none,
only tracks in the ocean foam.
Antonio Machado (translated by Franciso Valera)
Drawing of an Adolescent
Posted on April 25, 2010
Einstein Walking Meditation
Posted on April 23, 2010
you lay down a path in walking.
Antonio Machado (translated by Franciso Valera)
Nobel Laureates in Physics Albert Einstein (left) and Niels Bohr (right) walking.
Photo taken at the 1930 Solvay Conference in Brussels.
Source: Danish Film Institute
Photo: Paul Ehrenfest
“Let a railway wagon be moving along a track at a constant speed . Let a man walk along the wagon at a speed in the direction of the wagon’s motion. By which speed relatively to the railway embankment is the man moving during his walk? It seems that is only one possible answer results from this way of thinking:
If the man stopped after one second, he would, relative to the embankment, have moved forward for a certain distance which is equal to the speed of the wagon. Actually, relative to the wagon, that is, in relation to the embankment, he would also have traveled forward by a pace the distance , which corresponds to the speed of his walk. Thus, relative to the embankment, in the given second the man travels in all the distance
(19.1)Later on, we will see that this way of thinking which is in accordance with classical mechanics, expresses the addition theorem, cannot be retained, and that this law, we had just now written, does not represent the truth”
Einstein, Theory of Relativity , 19. ADDITION OF SPEEDS, 19.1 Addition of speeds in a vacuum
quoted at http://users.scnet.rs/~mrp/chapter19.html
“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.” – Einstein
only tracks in the ocean foam
Posted on April 22, 2010
Wanderer, the road is your footsteps
Posted on April 20, 2010
Wanderer, the road is your
footsteps, nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
you lay down a path in walking.
In walking, you lay down a path
and when turning around
you see the road you’ll
never step on again.
Wanderer, path there is none,
only tracks in the ocean foam.
Antonio Machado (translated by Franciso Valera)
two kids watching telly
Posted on April 19, 2010
A Drawing for Dad’s Birthday
Posted on April 18, 2010